The Island of the Colorblind

The Island of the Colorblind

Oliver Sacks has always been fascinated by islands – their remoteness, their mystery, above all forms of life that one port. For him, the islands also evoke the romance of Melville & Stevenson, the adventure of Magellan & Cook, & the scientific wonder of Darwin & Wallace.
Drawn into the tiny Pacific atoll Pingelap by intriguing reports of an isolated community of islanders born totally color-blind, Sacks finds himself setting up a clinic in a one-room island dispensary, where you listen into these islanders describe achromatopic their colorless world in rich terms of pattern & tone, brightness & shadow. And on Guam, where it is endemic into investigate the puzzling neurodegenerative paralysis there for a century

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